´Entertain me´: Telvision´s omnipresence [Lifestyle]

Most of us have visited recreations of early American homes in such places as Williamsburg, Va., and Sturbridge Village, Mass. They convey a feeling of barrenness, an evocation of a life consumed with work and struggle. Enter-tainment had no place. The furnishings were forbidding, and there was little reading material. Could one piece of modern electrotechnology transform the most inhospitable of these dwellings? Is there any doubt it would be a television set? Even in the present-day slums, television sets are an overwhelming choice before such seeming necessities as refrigerators and telephones.